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How do you pitch digital?

September 12, 2008

There are pretty tried and true methods of getting a publisher to look at your book manuscript. There are only so many pathways. You write a manuscript and either take your chances in the slush, find yourself an agent, or more rarely, leverage a contact or referral that gets your manuscript in front of someone who can [...]

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Crack yer spine

September 12, 2008

I was sure that I wrote a blog post about Penguin UK’s Spinebreakers website when it was launched, but a quick search of the archives reveals I only dreamed I did. Nevertheless, I’ve been meaning to write another (first) post for a while. The site has been operating for more than a year now and it [...]

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A unified field theory of publishing in the networked era

September 9, 2008

Bob Stein has published a brilliant piece over at if:book about the paradigm of the book in a networked world, and the role authors/ readers/ editors/ publishers can play in generating and curating ‘book’ content. I place those quotation marks deliberately because Stein interrogates the notion of the book as artefact, whether print or multimedia, and [...]

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How to get published

September 4, 2008

My apologies to all the eager people who found this post because they plugged “How to get published” into a search engine. Hopefully this can be regarded as a Community Service Announcement: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ_-TOJhXXk]

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3 thoughts inspired by Martyn Daniels: #3

September 3, 2008

The third thought is about rights, yep, that old nugget again. If I sound like I’m harping on this topic it’s because I’m coming at these issues mostly from an author’s perspective and the rights are the basic unit of tradable property from which authors’ incomes derive. The current rights debates do not stop publishers digitising their [...]

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